Mac OS News & Links
2000 Archive
- Step backward to go forward, John Holmes, osOpinion, 12/29. "...Apple's only hope for survival is to get OS X on as many boxes as they can, as quickly as they can."
- Top UI grievances of Mac OS X, Dave Giovannini, osOpinion, 12/27. Read this article to better understand why OS X is different.
- Is OS X a Big, Scary, Unknown Beast?, Chris Lawson, Tech Reflections, 12/1. Follow-up to last week's OS X is a big, scary, unknown beast.
- The OS X interface, John Cristie, My Turn, 11/27. Aqua simplifies the Mac interface, encouraging exploration.
- OS X is a big, scary, unknown beast, Chris Lawson, Tech Reflections, 11/21. "Why does OS X scare me? Probably most importantly, it's still very unfamiliar."
- OS X Beta: to use or not to use?, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 11/20. Thoughtful reader feedback to last week's article.
- OS X is coming: Watch out, you may be a reactionary Luddite, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 11/17.
- Looking at OS X through Windows, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, 11/17. How does OS X (beta) compare with Windows 2000?
- OS X dooms Apple, Scott Atkinson, My Turn, 11/8. Apple should learn from IBM's OS/2 mistakes and Microsoft's Win95 successes.
- Omnibus sampler of OS X commentary, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 11/8.
- The big problem with Mac OS X, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 11/7. "Once we saw Mac OS X, strong with its Unix base, protected memory, symmetric multiprocessing, preemptive multitasking and all the changes, panic grabbed many of us."
- Opinion: The age of everyman tech: Bill Cosby lied. Classic was better, John Holmes, osOpinion, 10/30. "I am interested in whether OS X behaves like a Mac, not a Unix box, and certainly not NeXT...."
- OS X: OS X with G3 upgrade cards, OS X Talk, 10/28.
- Opinion: Test drive musings of a (slightly wavering) OS X skeptic, Charles Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/25. "While OS 9 is pretty stable on my PowerBook, I am looking forward to protected memory and preemptive multitasking with OS X. I just hope the new interface doesn't slow down my work too much."
- News: iCab browser reaches v2.2, supports OS X.
- Rumor? The OS X on Alpha Project, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, 10/16. Whether you believe Motorola can actually ship a 1 GHz processor in the near future, Apple isn't betting on it.
- Bring back beige, Stephen Van Esch, Mac Scope, 10/11. Instead of porting OS X to Intel, how about an inexpensive beige Mac that ships with the real OS X?
- OS X: The NeXT Apple OS, MSNBC, 10/6. "Make no mistake about it: the complete overhaul of the Macintosh operating system is a very big deal."
- OS X: Adventures in X, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 10/4. "With just a few minutes of using the OS X Beta, it's obvious that it's not the Mac OS and it won't feel like the Mac OS for quite some time."
- Opinion: Mac OS X: Not ready for prime time, Go2Mac.com, 10/4. Well, it is a beta after all....
- Improving OS X, David Getzin, My Turn, 10/3. A beta testers suggestions for replacing the Apple Menu and Control Strip.
- News: Newer announces OS X drivers available soon, Newer Technology, 9/27.
- I've seen the future, and it is Aqua, Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future, 9/29. Hands on with Mac OS X beta - love at first byte!
- OS X: Road to OS X: Things to fix, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/28. The beta is promising, but missing some very helpful features Mac users are used to.
- OS X: Road to Mac OS X: Stability and speed (or lack of it), Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/27. "As for stability, well, it's everything Apple promised. I've yet to freeze the entire system."
- Moving to Mac OS 9, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 9/28. Until now, we haven't had a reason to install Mac OS 9. Now that we have, we find it very solid.
- Analysis: OS X on upgraded Macs?, David Read, MacWeek, 9/26. "Upgrade vendors face several obstacles in getting their products to work with Mac OS X."
- Opinion: The Mac user's blind spot, Stephen Van Esch, 9/27. At $30 a copy, about 100,000 of us are willing to pay Apple so we can beta test their new OS. Logical?
- Opinion: If Microsoft owned OS X, they woulda shipped it long ago, Rodney O. Lain, Applelinks, 9/26. Microsoft would have called OS X Beta a golden master and started working on Service Pack 1.
- Analysis: OS X: A merging of various decades-old technologies, Paul Bayley, Xappeal. A history of the Mac OS and a good look at the state of Mac OS X.
- OS X: The big compromise, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 9/20. "The first rule of engineering is that everything is about tradeoffs."
- OS X: More on the Mac and Unix, Slashdot, 9/20. Many Unix/Linux folk very impressed with OS X.
- OS X: Inside the public beta, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 9/19. "...you won't appreciate how much you've relied on the Apple menu and Application Switcher until you run Mac OS X."
- OS X: At 80,000 and counting, Apple unundated with OS X orders, Brad Gibson, MacCentral, 9/18. At $30 a pop, that's nearly a quarter million dollars!
- Analysis: Mac OS X: What you should really know and why there is no reason to worry today, Roger Kasten Jr., NewerTech. "If we expect too much from it, we will end up being disappointed and we will only have ourselves to blame."
- OS: OS X Server gets perfect score, MacNN, 9/16. OS X Server (not to be confused with OS X) scores 5 out of 5, surpassing Windows NT Server.
- OS X: No printer drivers in sight for OS X, MacWeek, 9/15. Sorry, but you just won't be able to print to those Epson, HP, Canon, and other USB ink-jet printers for a while.
- OS X: How good a Unix is Mac OS X?, Slashdot, 9/15.
- Rumor? Mac OS X on 68k Macs, Jag's House. How to run Mac OS X on a Quadra. Really. ;-)
- OS X: Reader impressions of public beta, Xappeal, 9/14. "Overall impression: while there are still a few rough edges that make it obvious that this is a beta, the quality is astonishing overall."
- OS X: OS X Public Beta available for order from Apple Store for US$29.95 shipped - or add $10 for 3-day shipping via FedEx. (I've got mine on order!)
- Software: Eradicator 1.5, Searchware Solutions, 9/14. Freeware utility for OS 9 users deletes temporary files the Mac OS leaves behind.
- OS X: Mac OS X: The full story, Macworld, 9/12.
- Web: MacOSX.com launched.
- OS X: Inside Mac OS X Public Beta, ZDNet, 9/11. Requires 128 MB RAM, 1.5 GB drive space. List of unsupported things is vast: most third-party video cards, AirPort, multiple monitors, second ATA drives, more. :-(
- OS X: Mac OS X beta's grab bag of apps, ZDNet, 9/11. OS X expected to ship with browser, email, QuickTime, and much more.
- OS X: Inside the public beta of Mac OS X, ZDNet, 9/11. "...Mac OS X public beta retains a strong flavor of NeXTstep...."
- OS: Countdown to OS X public beta, MacWeek, 9/11. Coming Wednesday - one way or another.
- OS: OS X beta release Sept.13, Jobs says, MacCentral, 8/29. Hope it will run on my SuperMacs!
- OS: OS X beta release date announced, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 8/29. "If OS X is half of what it promises to be, and Beta is half of that, then we will still have the best operating system in the world."
- OS: Mac OS X: A new beginning, Gene Steinberg, Arizona Central, 8/22. "...the beginning of the end of the original Macintosh operating system as we know it."
- OS: Mac OS X Server 1.2 not compatible with G4 MP, Cube, Apple TIL 86063, 7/25 [MacNN[. Time for a patch - or the end of OS X Server?
- News: XLR8 announces OS X compatibility for upgrades, Applelinks, 7/26. Carrier ZIF, MACh Carrier, and MACh Speed upgrades will work with OS X. (Just waiting for Newer to make the same promise....)
- Opinion: Mac OS X: The lessons of Mac OS 9, Kevin Bradley, MacInStart. "If the roll-out of Mac OS 9 last October taught me anything with regard to the upcoming release of OS X, it was this: wait."
- Opinion: Will Eazel be more faithful to the Macintosh vision than OS X?, Charles Moore, MacOS Daily, 6/16. "...the thinking behind Eazel may well be truer to the original Mac essence than OS X itself."
- 10 things I love about X, Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future, 6/14. Ten things to look forward to in Mac OS X.
- Hands on: OS X dock? We got your dock: A-Dock 2.0, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie, 6/13. We tried it; we like it. Shareware helps you prepare for one OS X innovation.
- OS: Revolutionizing Mac's operating system, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check, Arizona Central, 6/13. "While the Mac OS has undergone many changes since being introduced in 1984, there's a direct resemblance between version 1.0 and 9.0.4."
- OS: Moving to OS X, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 6/11. "Mac OS X will change the Mac experience in ways that go beyond the interface."
- Opinion: We need another revolution: defense of the Mac, freedom, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, MacAddict, 6/9. "I don't know what it is, but something about OS X pains me."
- Opinion: Is Aqua all wet?, Joe Carson, MacOS Daily, 6/8. A balanced look at the current state of pre-beta interface.
- OS: Where "1+1=3," Object Farm. A history of Mac OS X by way of NeXT.
- OS: Home Page, other apps built into Mac OS X, Why Mac?, 6/5. "Not Home Page as we know it...."
- OS: Core changes to the Mac System, BusinessWeek, 5/31. "OS X, Apple's new operating system, fundamentally transforms the venerable Macintosh desktop."
- OS: User runs OS X DP4 on Power Mac 7500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 5/30. Maybe there is hope for my SuperMac S900 with an "unsupported" installation.
- Hands On: OS X DP4 in-depth look with screen shots, Holy Mac. Read this and you will want to beta test OS X when it becomes available.
- Opinion: Mac OS X delayed - that sounds great to me!, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 5/23. "Developing masterpieces requires an awful lot of time."
- Opinion: The death of sprockets, Brian Greenstone, Inside Mac Games. "I have to admit that my perception of the Games Session at WWDC was that Apple is killing the games API's and not replacing them with anything...."
- Review: Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 5/19. ...David Pogue's "Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual" delivers on its promise to be "the book that should have been in the box."
- Analysis: Multiprocessing on the Mac, David Read, MacWeek, 5/18. "Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, in contrast, support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). Here, all processors are treated as equals, and the OS automatically threads tasks to any available chip."
- Opinion: On the Flip Side: Mac advocates are a bunch of bigots, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 5/16. "...we are arrogant. It is hard not to be and it annoys other people out there."
- OS: Mac OS X, Apple Computer. Straight from the horse's mouth, including screen shots of DP4.
- OS: Mac OS X, Macs Only!, 5/16. New hope for older Power Macs: "According to Apple, Mac OS X is designed to run on all Macintosh computers using PowerPC G3 and G4 processor chips, and requires a minimum of 64 MB of memory."
- OS: OS X looks like a Mac, MacWeek, 5/15. "With DP4, Mac OS X now has a more Mac-like Finder."
- OS: Apple releases Mac OS X Developer Preview 4, Apple Computer, 5/15. Public beta due this summer, final release in January.
- Opinion: Announced OS X Public Beta hides the real issue, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer, 5/15. "Apple has again let the release of their next OS to slip, this time by a minimum of 6 months."
- WWDC: Look for coverage on MacNN, Mac Observer, MacCentral, MacWeek, and more links on MacSurfer's Headline News.
- Opinion: Sydow's Mind of Macness: An iMac or an iPC?, Don Parks Sydow, MacOS Daily, 5/15. "It's pretty unlikely that Apple will ever make a Mac OS capable of running on a PC that sports an Intel processor, right? Wrong!"
- Opinion: Can Apple seize the day?, David Schultz, 5/15. "Microsoft is on the ropes; other options are springing up by which Apple can distinguish itself, and Apple itself is coming out of its second infancy."
- Opinion: The "one OS" strategy, Think Secret, 5/12. Speculation that the "one OS" may be Darwin, not OS X. Provocative viewpoint.
- Opinion: Moore's Views & Reviews: Moore succumbs to Aqua, at least a little bit, Charles Moore, Applelinks. "Too much visual stimulation tires me out and jades my senses. I love the understated subtlety of the traditional Mac OS."
- OS: The Best of Mac OS X, Macwelt. "Mac-OS X is basically a Unix operating system."
- Opinion: Apple, serve Mac OS X online, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 5/4. "What if Apple created an online version of Mac OS X and its Aqua interface?" Anyone with a browser could experience it!
- Opinion: Road to Mac OS X: Expandable or not?, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 5/4.
- Opinion: Mac OS X and Aqua tidbits, Think Secret, 5/2. Whether this comes from an anonymous Apple insider or not, it's a very thoughtful piece on "the iMac OS."
- Review: Mac OS 9: The Complete Reference, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 4/28. "Gene Steinberg's 'Mac OS 9: The Complete Reference' is a tome in the tradition of those great Mac books...."
- OS: Linux and the PowerPC, Slashdot, 4/20.
- OS: Think difficult: Extending Mac OS X, MacWeek, 4/13. "Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X may change the way Mac users interact with their favorite computer, but it will have an even bigger impact on the companies that develop Mac OS utilities."
- OS: Windows ME features Mac OS X should have, Mac Junkie, 4/11.
- OS: Apple releases Mac OS 9.0.4 Update, Apple, 4/4. It's a whopping 12.5 MB download!
- USB: USB Adapter Card Support 1.4.1 released, Apple, 4/4. Requires OS 8.6 or later, part of OS 9.0.4 software update (above). Accelerate Your Mac! notes it should use less CPU cycles than previous versions.
- Opinion: OS X: A major salvo against Windows or just a backfire?, George Graves, Holy Mac!, 4/4. "Most Mac users would be very happy if this new OS looked and felt like OS 9 yet had all of the buzzword technologies working seamlessly and invisibly underneath. Unfortunately, OS X is not that operating system...."
- Opinion: Are Aqua-skeptics luddites?, Charles Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, 3/29. "I have no interest in change for the sake of change, or in putting form before function, and I really have no time for change that makes things worse."
- Opinion: Does Darwin open the door to Intel?, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/27. "Look at it this way: what sells the iMac? Is it the processor...?"
- Deal: Cyberdog 2000 + Mac OS 9, $49 extended through 3/17/00, Xeosoft [MacSurfer]. Even if you don't care about Cyberdog, it's a great price for OS 9.
- Opinion: Apple's OS X is a Unix-Mac attack, Oliver Rist, TechWeb, 3/6. Labels OS X and Aqua "amazing."
- Opinion: Mac OS X: the big change, Kel Taylor, Mac to the Future, 3/7. "Interfaces must and will continue to change with time. Can you imagine computers a hundred years from now even using graphic interfaces?"
- Opinion: Aqua: I don't want to lick my computer, I just want to get my work done, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 3/2.
- Humor: Dr. !Seuss on Aqua, Mac Observer, 3/1. "I do not like it, JOBS-I-am. I do not like The Aqua Dock."
- Opinion: Aquard, Gerard Bagwin, Mac Musings, 2/28. "A back to basics OS is what we need, not inconsistent icon sizes and photographic toolbar icons that mean nothing."
- Opinion: OS X: What do we do with the Apple logo now?, Right On Mac!, 2/28. At this point, it's purely ornamental in OS X.
- OS: MacOS.app vs. Classic.app, MacNN, 2/25. MacOS.app runs current applications at full screen, while Classic.app runs them in a window.
- Analysis: Mac OS X DP3, Rourke McNamara, 2/22 [Slashdot]. "OS X is amazing."
- OS X: Mac hits another home run, Business Week.
- Analysis: OS X performance on a G3, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 2/22. Lots of good data, especially about object oriented display.
- Opinion: (Malcolm) OS X T-shirts and mistaken identity, Rodney O. Lain, The iMac, 2/21. "I wonder if Apple is aware of the problems they've caused for black Mac lovers like myself?"
- OS: Carmack ports X Windows to OS X Server, Xappeal, 2/7.
- Opinion: Mac OS X for Intel: Has the groundwork been laid?, John Kinsella, Applelinks, 2/4.
- OS: Linux on a Mac is back, iTeen, Mac Observer, 2/4.
- Opinion: Lucy Linux returns for the weekend, John Martellaro, Mac Opinion, 2/3. Why Linux is not a consumer operating system.
- OS: Time to move to BeOS?, Stephen Van Esch, osOpinion.
- OS: Free BeOS 5 to run on pre-G3 Power Macs, Be. May have problems with some 8600, 9600 configurations. (more)
- OS: Mac OS X, AppleInsider, 1/14. Good overview of new OS, includes preliminary system requirements.
- Skin off Apple's nose, Dan Knight, The iMac Channel, 1/14. "...Apple should be flattered."
- Opinion: Apple's big mistake, 1/13. "...Aqua is attractive, but unfortunately Apple has sacrificed usability for looks."
- News: Legal tumult over Aqua look, MacWeek, 1/13.
- News: iTools - Mac OS 9 only?, iTools Tamer [MacSurfer]. You can sign up for "@mac.com" email, then use iDisk and submit iReview feedback.
- Got OS 9 and iTools? Please go to iReview and suggest they review your favorite Mac sites.
- Analysis: Mac OS X at Macworld, Xappeal, 1/5.
- News: Macworld 2000 Keynote Address Special Report, Mac News Today, 1/5. We couldn't be there, but caught it through the miracle of QuickTime 4.
Links: OS X index, 2002 archive, 2001 archive, 2000 archive, 1998-99 archive, OS 9 overview
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